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A New Challenge At Time Out – #111 – Holidays!

Hello … bonjour! Welcome to our first Time Out Challenge of June, where we have a theme for you to play with … it’s Holidays … with the optional twist of making a one layer card. I didn’t twist this time around …

I was going to make a card about holidays (as in vacations) … couldn’t find the right combination of stamps in my stash … so adapted … and made a Christmas card. I don’t use the term holiday for Christmas, although many of my US friends do, so I felt most everyone would understand the adaptation! I gold heat embossed the Simon Says Stamp sentiment onto a white card panel, sponged on some Distress Ink in Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass and Blueprint Sketch and splattered/spritzed Shimmer Spray over it. The dove was cut with a Poppy Stamps die in gold foil card and white … I adhered the gold outline flat to the card, added glue to the spaces, used Press N Seal to pick up all the white inner pieces (it worked a treat!) and pressed them all into place at the same time. The finished panel was attached flat to a card base …. and I was done. My inspiration for the background colours, gold and dove came from Pam A who is Guest Designer at Muse Christmas Visions … thanks, Pam!

How will you interpret our Holidays theme … and will you use our optional twist? We’d love to see what you create in our gallery. This fortnight, we’re sponsored by Seven Hills Crafts (thanks, Tara!) … there’ll be a random winner, drawn from those who use the optional twist, of a goodie bag of stamps and dies from the store. As usual, our overall winner, as voted for by the DT, will be invited to guest design with us in a future challenge. All the details are over at the Time Out blog … along with heaps of inspiration from our brilliant DT … and from our talented Guest Designer, Ishani from Quillish. Why not pop over and have a visit with Ishani … you’ll have a splendid time exploring all the inspiring and fabulous cards on display … and you can leave her some love while you’re there!

My goodness, this is beautiful, Anita. Adore the subtle background color. That die is stunning in gold and so is the sentiment. Wow. Have to remember that as I do own that sentiment stamp set. Thank you so much for sharing this lovely. Hugs!

This holiday card is stunning Anita! I love that dove, so beautiful and with the inks even more beautiful. As pure looking as the driven snow! I don’t like the word “holiday” either, I much prefer Christmas, but so many use it and I occasionally will too. Glad you went with this direction for this challenge Anita because it is stunning, elegant and heavenly! Hugs, Brenda

Quite the holiday pick for the challenge. This is exquisitely wrought. Your meticulous work is always a joy to behold and this one is the perfect example. Actually it took my breath away. Love how you used that sentiment (one of my favorites) to further accentuate the beauty of the gorgeous dove. (Insert heavy sigh of delight here.)

Ooooooooo Anita, this is fabulous. I think it’s funny that in the US, we call holidays, vacations, and we call Christmas time, holidays. Anyway, I love that ever so subtle addition of color and the awesome gold embossing and die cutting. A beautiful composition.

This is stunning and pretty much what I set out to do with mine originally, but when the gold pieces all stayed in, I went for the higher drama. I love seeing this though and knowing how beautiful it would have looked! So great to see you at MCV my friend (notice we don’t call it MHV, even though we love to see any winter-themed cards. LOL!)

Simply glorious, that dove. Like that you used gold foil for the dove, it suits her. The subtle sponging makes her stand out even more. A holiday card for me is always a Christmas card – we say vacation here. I think Holiday as in vacation is more a British thing. But what do I know, I am not the expert when it comes to language….But I am really glad you played with MCV rather than a different challenge 😉 – thanks, my friend!

Your card is awesome, Anita! It looks so delicate and fragile with this subtil colors!
….and this gorgeous dove, whose beauty is even more accentuated by this superb sentiment!! – I’m completely blown away!
Hugs, Rosi

I missed this glorious card somehow, Anita, so I’m delighted to have seen it as the winner at MCV! Congratulations and well-deserved! Your soft coloring is simple perfection to back light that uplifting and serene dove!! LYAMYMA! DYEYFI? Love and hugs, Darnell

Sorry for commenting so late on your cards, Anita… Life has been on the way!! I LOVE this bird die. It’s on my wishlist from Poppystamps… The card you created has such wonderful detail. I love the shine and the style of the sentiment works super well with the dove. Wonderful design!

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